Darth Plagueis, the Sith Lord mentioned in Revenge of the Sith and written about in the Expanded Universe. He's already been released in Wave 3 of the Black Series, but (unsurprisingly) most can't find him. He's the hot chase figure in his wave assortment.

They just tossed some not-so-brand-new figures onto those shelves to spice things up and pad out the displays.

Mattel's send off for DCUC isn't one stupid repaint, it's six stupid repaints and a mini-figure. They're pandering to the nostalgic Super Powers collectors with seven figures all based on that old line. Actually, six of them are based off Super Powers. One figure, Green Lantern as Riddler, is a joke figure based off Super Amigos, an Argentinian knock-off line. The horribly mismatched shades of green on Matty's figure are apparently intentional, to capture that nostalgic knock-off flavor.

You know, this kinda encapsulates the entire reason this line has died. Our final farewell is a bunch of really easy repaints, that they will charge close to $30 for. The only newly sculpted thing is Mxy. However he's small, has barely any articulation, and they'll be charging the same price for him as the rest. Matty isn't willing to put in any effort, and just assumes we'll buy whatever crap they churn out for whatever price they feel like charging.

Mattel's send off for DCUC isn't one stupid repaint, it's six stupid repaints and a mini-figure. They're pandering to the nostalgic Super Powers collectors with seven figures all based on that old line. Actually, six of them are based off Super Powers. One figure, Green Lantern as Riddler, is a joke figure based off Super Amigos, an Argentinian knock-off line. The horribly mismatched shades of green on Matty's figure are apparently intentional, to capture that nostalgic knock-off flavor.

You know, this kinda encapsulates the entire reason this line has died. Our final farewell is a bunch of really easy repaints, that they will charge close to $30 for. The only newly sculpted thing is Mxy. However he's small, has barely any articulation, and they'll be charging the same price for him as the rest. Matty isn't willing to put in any effort, and just assumes we'll buy whatever crap they churn out for whatever price they feel like charging.

The worst part is the exorbitant prices they're going to charge us for what are simple repaints.

If I get any of these, it's going to be Mxy. It won't be through Matty, though. I'll grab him for pennies on the dollar when the Asian production samples hit eBay. There's no accessories to miss out on here, and I give absolutely no craps about the brown Kalibak BAF, so there's no real downside to doing that in this case.

The guy in charge of the Infinite Lines was asked why they're not doing any figures for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and he responded with "We never said we weren't" so perhaps they've got something planned for down the pipe. This movie is practically screaming for line with all of it's characters, and giant Sentinels! So maybe we'll get something announced in a couple of months prior to the film, or maybe even after the film.

I might get the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman figures. It's sad what has happened with the line.

I wonder what they will do with the Movie Masters, especially with MOS 2 next year. I want a Movie Masters MOS 2 (whatever it gets called) Wonder Woman and BatAffleck figures!

IIRC, Harmony Gold (owner of the Robotech IP) tried to sue Hasbro over this. A private settlement was reached out of court between the two companies and the case was subsequently dismissed.

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From what I've read, they sued over the depiction of a Macross Valkyrie design on the card art for the SDCC GI Joe/Transformers crossover set. The suit was dismissed with prejudice and no settlement was reached or necessary.

The Generations leader figure is different enough that it probably doesn't step on Harmony Gold's toes anyway – the alt mode is clearly based on an F-14 with a few F-22 Raptor elements thrown in, and the robot mode is straight-up the G1 cartoon model, which never looked much like a Valkyrie anyway.

This might be old news to some, but it appears the upcoming 6" Anakin Skywalker in the Black Series (Revenge of the Sith) will have interchangeable heads like Darth Maul. One to represent Anakin before his fall to the Dark Side and conversion to a Sith Lord, the other to depict his transformation into Darth Vader and his appearance during Order 66 and Mustafar.

I'm glad they're taking that route. While it doesn't eliminate the chances of a redundant release of a separate "Darth Vader" version of Anakin sometime down the road it does probably reduce them. At this point much of the collecting community will probably respond with "the fewer PT Anakins from this point on, the better."

Harmony Gold's rights over Macross is nothing short of a notorious icky mess and a bone of contention with many anime fans, but essentially Harmony Gold still continues to license toys and other stuff based on those original designs in the U.S.

The suit was dismissed with prejudice and no settlement was reached or necessary.